The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.

Black Self-Governance argues that Black people—including the enslaved—in seventeenth-century Lima, Peru (a majority Black city) created political corporations that enabled them to govern themselves and negotiate with authorities. Marcella Hayes explores not only their political status but also their place in the emerging colonial order.

Words Made Flesh is a comparative study of grammars, dictionaries, translations, and hymns produced in Indigenous languages in colonial Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Examining keywords related to the body, the book demonstrates the significant role corporeality played in evangelization campaigns and the development of Indigenous Christianity.

Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.

Of Light and Struggle uncovers the messy process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, suggesting that discussions occurring around the globe about the small country on the Río de la Plata had international implications for the limits and possibilities of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.

This second edition of Human Rights in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, and online resources—make this an especially valuable text for use in the classroom.

In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa focuses on Ecuador's booming cut-flower sector and shows how capitalist expansion bound the Global South to new modes of financial dependency and subjected indigenous workers to elaborate forms of racial "improvement" and uplift.